I was wondering if anyone here ever knew about Operation Northwoods, the plan of the U.S. military to stage terror attacks on themselves, then blame it on the Cubans in order to justify going to war with their communist rivals and invading their territory?
Military leaders were starting to go off the edge, they believed Kennedy botched the Bay of Pigs invasion and could not get anything of value done.
[1] Operation Northwoods was officially declassified in 2005
[2] and it seems that the plan was dropped due to the assassination of then president John F. Kennedy
[3].
The .pdf file which the contains the full, declassified text file can be downloaded
here.
Your thoughts?